noun

• (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
• (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
• (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
• Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
• (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.